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...Fukushima’s nuclear disaster is a nightmare. Ghostly releases of radioactivity haunt the Japanese countryside. Lives, once safe, are now beset by an ineffable scourge promising vile illness and death...Link
A fallen dream
Nuclear power is no magic solution, argues Pervez Hoodbhoy it's not safe, or cheap, and it leads to weapons programmes.
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But then Fukushima came along. The disaster's global psychological impact exceeded Chernobyl's, and left a world that's now unsure if nuclear electricity is the answer.
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The plume of radiation reached as far as Canada. Closer, it was far worse. Japan knows that swathes of its territory will be contaminated, perhaps uninhabitable, for the rest of the century.
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Yes, Fukushima came along and now humans no longer want energy supplies.The plume of radiation reached as far as Canada. Closer, it was far worse. Japan knows that swathes of its territory will be contaminated, perhaps uninhabitable, for the rest of the century.
However it won't result in no more uranium mining. Increasing efficiency of energy generation actually increases fuel consumption, since it lowers the price of energy, thus stimulating industries to use even more energy (as substitutes for more labour, more efficiency r&d etc). There was a similar situation in England during the industrial revolution, when it was theorized that the increasing steam engine efficiency would lower coal consumption and spare England's coal reserves. Of course the reducing of the marginal energy costs fueled even more industrial expansion.
A fallen dream
Nuclear power is no magic solution, argues Pervez Hoodbhoy it's not safe, or cheap, and it leads to weapons programmes.
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Just in regards to our previous discussion, just over 100 people have died in sydney from diseases related to our current carbon based fuels since we spoke a couple of months back, hundreds of others living severly reduced quality of life due to illness.
Thyroid gland irregularities found in young evacuees from Fukushima
NAGANO (Kyodo) -- Hormonal and other irregularities were detected in the thyroid glands of 10 out of 130 children evacuated from Fukushima Prefecture, a Nagano Prefecture-based charity dedicated to aid for the victims of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident said Tuesday.
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Radioactive iodine tends to get lodged in children's thyroid glands more than those of adults, placing youngsters at greater risk of developing disorders and diseases including cancer.
Tysonboss1
What % of your 100 people had an underlying illness or were old? 100?
Intrinsically evil?
That is an utterly a mindless statement.
The pros and cons need to be weighed in the light of rational thought not mindless emotionally charged irrational statements.
There is so much energy and heat in the core of this earth it seems insane that we have not yet perfected a way to harmlessly use that!
Blame the oil companies for they were the ones that deliberately chose to create culture of doubt about the cause of climate change.
There is so much energy and heat in the core of this earth it seems insane that we have not yet perfected a way to harmlessly use that!
But then Fukushima came along. The disaster's global psychological impact exceeded Chernobyl's, and left a world that's now unsure if nuclear electricity is the answer.
Nuclear energy after Fukushima
The environmental disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant this spring is creating a new global divide over the safety of nuclear energy. Sharply differing responses to Fukushima from the world’s wealthiest and poorest nations will bring diminished safety for all.
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But developing countries with little nuclear experience and spotty industrial safety records are moving ahead with ambitious plans to expand generating capacity. China and India — after pausing briefly to review safety arrangements — are adding about 80 new reactors over the next two decades. (The United States has 104 of the 436 reactors worldwide.)
India’s expanding use of electricity obtained from enriched uranium — an essential ingredient in building nuclear weapons — is certain to spur Pakistan’s already well-established atomic ambitions, at a time when many see Iran’s nuclear research program as a prelude to a triangular nuclear arms race involving Israel and Arab states that covet nuclear power.
In short, the proliferation of nuclear reactors across Asia is certain to facilitate and encourage nuclear weapons proliferation as well.
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The calamity at Fukushima spread fears of radiation poisoning around the world — even though all but one or two of the estimated 14,000 deaths were thought to have been caused by the earthquake and tsunami that triggered the reactor meltdowns.
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But the nuclear world has changed dramatically in the past six months. The administration needs to recognize and act on the reality that Fukushima — like Chernobyl in its day — issued a summons to new thinking.
The environmental disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant this spring is creating a new global divide over the safety of nuclear energy.
Another bearish pennant is forming confirming the 2.0c approximate target. Breakout will confirm...View attachment 44833
Intrinsically evil?
That is an utterly a mindless statement.
Yes tone can be hard to convey in a post, but my references to godzilla should have been a giveaway.I am pretty sure he made that comment in jest.
Yes, but Tysonboss, you are forgetting that nuclear is intrinsically evil.
It creates mutants, godzillas, and makes things glow green. Hence, everything else is fine, as long as it is not nuclear.
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